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by trebor 17y ago
Basically, "the more the better". In lieu of a summary, let me try to see if I understand it. The deck is more random: the more times you shuffle, the more cuts you make, and the more you randomize the size of your cuts. To draw my own conc
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by trebor 17y ago
> Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is
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by trebor 17y ago
Technically, I don't think that Verizon is a neutral carrier. Not with a clause like this. I've been a Verizon customer for a while now, and they've not removed anything off-topic of mine. Then again, I doubt I've been vociferously complain
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by trebor 17y ago
I must say, the value of the dollar is depressing. Take a gander at this comparison I did of the Yen and Yuan compared to the dollar (btw, falling is a bad thing in this chart!)... > http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=CNY=X#chart3:symb
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by trebor 17y ago
In Opera and Firefox nothing happens, and it's quirky in Chrome. IE is hopeless. Safari-centric web design does no one good.
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by trebor 17y ago
AllChars on a Windows laptop is a total lifesaver! I lost all my escape codes due to disuse and had to resort to the character viewer.
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by trebor 17y ago
I use Google products, but not that much. The simple point is to: opt out of what you don't need. I use GMail, predominantly, and beyond that don't have much other information associated with my account. Privacy online isn't threatened by
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by trebor 17y ago
Quite so, my Studio 1555 is a 65W unit and my LCD monitor is now aging. Even with my 60W Acer AL1916W drawing power I use less than the Mac Mini would. And when I don't need it I turn off the LCD. Doing a little math based off my electrical
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by trebor 17y ago
I hate cellphones, but I'm not a senior citizen, and am not any less educated than the "adopters". I despise cellphones because I grew up with a father that had one. I was fortunate enough that, at that time, Dad could come home for lunch .
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by trebor 17y ago
Most people can drive their cars for years and years, because they give it the right maintenance and fuel. But somehow, they give their bodies almost no care, terrible fuel, and expect equivalent mileage? There's no replacement for preventi
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by trebor 17y ago
I'll be imprudent: What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake. http://gradha.sdf-eu.org/textos/kl
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by trebor 17y ago
I wish I knew of such a study. I haven't had any time to dig with lately, or I would cite it fondly. (I enjoy postulating things and then later reading a confirming study.)
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by trebor 17y ago
I accept the realities of placebos and nocebos. I dispute the manner and clarity in which it was described and communicated in, however. I postulate that the recent article on luckiness is the same factor: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by trebor 17y ago
Semantics, yes, but also science. It comes from the same cause, the human mind, and is therefore the very same effect. If both positive and negative expectations affect us in such strong manners, why shouldn't we be honest in our semantics?
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by trebor 17y ago
This science and title is misleading. Placebo and nocebo are terms for both sides of one effect: suggestibility. If told they were testing a drug, warned of its side effects, and then given a sugar pill, then of course the mind (which was t
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by trebor 17y ago
Since XP, when an application froze the window itself would render in spite of the frozen/omitted contents. So when the titlebar got an ending "(not responding)" tag it is easily closed with one click of the close button, then another of "e
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by trebor 17y ago
It's kinda hard to abandon your worldview to study knowledge, when your paradigm dictates what that knowledge means to you. I am holding a butter knife to my imaginary 3D-scanner: you have 64px^3 of the resultant image to determine the natu
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by trebor 17y ago
As far as I understand it, epistemology is worldview.
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by trebor 17y ago
Quite right. The title says engineers aren't getting enough, when the article is complaining about the engineers.
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by trebor 17y ago
Has anyone else spotted this contradiction? Assertion: This strategy for survival, known as autophagy ("eating oneself"), evolved in our ancestors over two billion years ago. Today, all animals rely on it to endure famines, as do
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by trebor 17y ago
I think that there must be an exception for certain crimes, but not all crimes. Otherwise, a murderer, rapist, thief, corporate spy, hacker, etc, could claim that they didn't know it was illegal and probably get off the hook.
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by trebor 17y ago
Debt is effective slavery. Ask anyone that has a second mortgage and two car payments. Is their job to blame? No way! Their spending put them into literal slavery to a financial institution.
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by trebor 17y ago
I pity people with memory like this. Unlike the author, I don't forget the code I wrote yesterday and can still explain and understand it. It takes several months for the meaning of my normal code to slip my mind. Maybe I'm just different .
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by trebor 17y ago
I believe that there is a way to refuse "artificial life support" in your will all ready.
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by trebor 17y ago
Lowercase R, C, A, and E are also pretty easy giveaways. I don't use MS Office so I lack Helvetica, but it's still quite easy to pick out against Arial.
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by trebor 17y ago
Just so long as you don't drop the CFL! Have you read the warnings on that thing? Mercury gas accounts for as much as 40mg/bulb, and they say vacate the entire premises, change air filters, and destroy whatever the bulb broke on (like cloth
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by trebor 17y ago
Dar 2.3.9 was updated on March 22th this year; there were 4 commits to CVS in the last 21 days, too. Never heard of Dar, but I thought it deserved to be on record that it is still alive and kicking (unlike your statement of when it was last
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by trebor 17y ago
Can someone explain how aggregation (for blackmail) is "value-adding" to a business? My company considers $4,800 a year in bribes to Squidoo as evil as an e-paparazzi goblin. No business with any internet savvy would cave to these ransom no
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by trebor 17y ago
Thanks for linking to the talk, it was very thought provoking. And, by what I see, adds more support to the article's conclusion.
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by trebor 17y ago
Don't forget the satisfaction of helping people! When your widget fills a need, not merely a want, in a company or team, you can feel good at having met that need. There will always be the slimy, rip-his-granny-off kind of salesman because

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